Real Love?

In the movies and the books – in the stories with their Hooks and their climaxes and antagonists and words – Real love means Letting go, real Love means Being able to believe that people are a Boomerang, that If you let them fly away all They'll do is come back stronger; In the movies and the books, in the Beautiful, heart-wrenching stories that Will make you laugh and cry and think and lie Stock Still – in those things, real Love Means Believing; real Love Means Being certain, real love is Conviction, real love is Faith, real love is No doubt, no questions asked, no Questions needing answers. Then I guess – I guess I Don't feel that; I Am uncertain, I Have questions that scream Scream Scream for your answers, I Have Never been as unsure as I am now; Then I guess I guess this isn't love, not What I thought it was – no, Not What the movies say it is, not What I'm told that I should feel, but Right – for now, at least, This Is right, right now This is simply what I feel.

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